| Weeds - Season Three | 
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Sales Rank: 602
Category: DVD
Actors: Mary-louise Parker, Elizabeth Perkins, Tonye Patano, Romany Malco, Justin Kirk
Directors: Craig Zisk, Ernest R. Dickerson, Julie Anne Robinson, Lev L. Spiro, Martha Coolidge
Publisher: Lions Gate
Studio: Lions Gate
Brand: Lions Gate
Label: Lions Gate
Format: Ac-3, Box Set, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD
Running Time: 388 minutes
Number Of Items: 3
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.8
MPN: LGED24077D
UPC: 031398240778
EAN: 0031398240778
ASIN: B00166UFSY
Release Date: June 3, 2008
Theatrical Release Date: August 7, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Description
America's favorite pot-dealing soccer mom is more addictive than ever in the third season of WEEDS, the highly acclaimed Showtime(r) Original Series. Emmy (r) and Golden Globe(r) winner MARY-LOUISE PARKER stars as Nancy Botwin, a single mom who resorts to dealing pot after her husband dies suddenly. But when an off beat way to make ends meet grows into a mini-empire, the mother of all dealers finds she may be in over her head - and on the verge of taking everyone else with her. Hilarious and subversive, WEEDS is the hit that put the herb in suburb.
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Weeds: Season Three continues the dark line of comedy that emerged in the previous season for this Showtime series. The story picks up exactly where it left off, with Nancy Botwin (Mary-Louise Parker) faced with a half-dozen guns pointing at her in her own kitchen, while an Armenian gang and Nancy's buyer, U-Turn (Page Kennedy), both demand she turn over her entire stash of marijuana (worth several hundred thousand dollars). Problem is, the pot is in the trunk of on-again, off-again friend Celia (Elizabeth Perkins), whose car has been stolen by Nancy's oldest son, Silas (Hunter Parrish). Silas wants in on mom's business, but his timing couldn't be worse as Celia and a police officer show up to reclaim the car while Nancy is still at gunpoint. The fallout from all this is that Nancy ends up working for U-Turn to repay her debt to him, a dangerous relationship that sends Nancy down a rabbit hole of underworld threats and violence. Meanwhile, Celia gets booted out of her home by her husband and becomes estranged from her young daughter, Isabelle (Allie Grant), who insists she's a lesbian. Celia rebounds a bit when a corrupt developer (Matthew Modine) gives her a house in exchange for her support on city council for one of his schemes. That goes wrong, too, when Celia allows Nancy, Doug (Kevin Nealon), and Conrad (Romany Malco), all of whom go into business after U-Turn stops being a problem, to put their endangered trove of marijuana plants in her house. Nancy's other son, Shane (Alexander Gould), claims he can see and talk to the ghost of Nancy's late husband, and Nancy's brother-in-law Andy (Justin Kirk) goes AWOL from the U.S. Army after his comrade is deliberately killed in an experimental missile test. As always, it's one thing after another on Weeds, and the blend of humor and suspense is uniquely compelling. Parker and the rest of the cast pull off some pretty surreal situations with great credibility. The show's lead star, particularly, can carry moments of blended terror and comedy: one of the season's most memorable moments finds Nancy forced to put on a sexy dance for a group of drug dealers in order to pick up a package U-Turn requires. The scene is humiliating, frightening, sexy, and comical all at once. Few actresses could have pulled it off, but Parker does. --Tom Keogh
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 A few episodes are made out of the same "ticky-tacky" as the "little boxes" in the theme song November 10, 2008
You've heard the drill in these TV-on-DVD reviews: if you liked the first two seasons of Showtime's "Weeds", you should like the third. Having said that, season three isn't inspiring me to write a jump-for-joy, rave-filled review. For one thing, I can cut a break for a widowed soccer mom forced to deal drugs for a while to make ends meet, but Nancy has been doing this for going on three years now, if not longer. I know that one doesn't have to admire what a series character does to enjoy a particular show (I like "Dexter" and "The Sopranos", after all), but for some reason it's bugging me that Nancy continues to embrace criminal behavior. I know, I know... it's a silly criticism of a show that's not really meant to be taken seriously. It's probably because Nancy is cute and fun and an otherwise good mom that I want her to stop being a felon.
Also, the season-long story thread was a bit choppy this time, with plotlines starting up and then quickly abandoned, or left unsatisfyingly under-explored. In the case of the brief, pointless "Andy grabbed by the army" plotline, that one shouldn't have even started in the first place (though I admit it did have a laugh or two). Another missed opportunity was the presence of those usually-reliable-for-laughs cable comedy mainstays: loony evangelicals. But even here there were misfires. Oddly, in the episodes where the crazed born-agains appeared, they either weren't ridiculed enough or were ridiculed too much (which isn't easy, let me tell you). Never a happy medium. Weird, huh?
Good moments? Yep, still a lot of them. Celia's husband and Councilman Doug finding ways to work on a porn movie set, and their response to being there, are a riot. Good-looking women in those episodes, too. And speaking of good looking, Mary-Louise Parker remains cute as a button. But I think I said that already.
The "Weeds, Season Three" DVD delivers fifteen episodes (the longest season to date), some commentary tracks, and a few goofy extras of no real consequence. The episodes look and sound great.
I still like "Weeds", and will seek out the fourth season when it comes out on DVD (it helps that there's a pretty interesting close to the season, which genuinely makes us ask, "what will these characters do next?"), but I'm hoping that the show's junior year mild slump is only temporary. If season four gets fully back on track, mainly by delivering sharper, interesting storylines on a more consistent basis, I won't even mind if Nancy still keeps dealing drugs. Which is pretty much a given anyway, I'm guessing.
 Great show, good DVD October 20, 2008
If you've seen the first two seasons then you know what to expect. Great show, DVD extras are nothing special.
weeds season 3 October 13, 2008
the case of this product was ripped up and did not look at all new. that should have been included in the description along with a price reduction
a non-stop laugh riot for season 3 October 12, 2008
season 3 of weeds flowed seamless and flawlessly when i put it in the dvd player. i am glad nancy survived the drug deal that when south because of silas. celia hodes really did shine during this season, her relationship with the smarmy snake sullivan groff was great. i was glad when U-turn met his demise at the hands of marvin, then freeing nancy from her debt. i am glad the writers brought agent fundis back, and captain till found out about his illegal activities with the deceased agent scottson. after that was settled, the agrestic/majestic merger came about and doug wilson getting his revenge was classic. i am glad jenji kohan and her excellent team of writers brought guerillmo diaz into the picture. having nancy do the brick dance was hilarious. i play the episode brickdance over and over again. i was surprized to see agrestic/majestic burn to the ground, but nancy has to start a fresh.
i personally really don't care what the naysayers and the crybabies say about season 3, i am loyal to the end, and i can't wait for season 4 to come out on dvd.
 RIPOFF October 9, 2008
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This is the first time that I have ever been ripped off through a customer of Amazon.com. Never received my item & e-mails have never been returned to me of the whereabouts of that item. Never received shipping confirmation. After reading other reviews, I guess I'm not alone. That's a real shame that so many people can be screwed like this by a customer of Amazon.com. I would've thought that something would have been done by now.
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